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By:Kyle Cheney
Posted: 4/19/07

Adan Berkowitz's disdain for the very media that gives him a voice is an alarmingly narrow-minded generalization. ("A campus in grief distracted by media attack," April 18, p. 9). While sensationalism is all too…

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A large tree on the Virginia Tech campus has several ribbons tied around it.

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Message boards filled with comments are stationed on the drill field.

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A large tree on the Virginia Tech campus has a simple orange ribbon tied around it.

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Remember the fallen and keep the family and friends of the victims in your thoughts and prayers

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Tape that surrounds Norris (where the second shooting took place at VT). Burruss (another building on campus) is in the background. I still can't believe this happened at my school and that now one of the buildings I pass every day is a crime…

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The flag in front of Burruss that I altered to VT colors


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PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 2007

Students Abroad Need Answers and Assurance, Not Silence

To the Editor:
We are two Columbia College students, currently studying abroad in Paris at Reid Hall. We just found out this afternoon, after a random discussion…

Here I am only going to share the events of my day on April 16, 2007. It feels better tell the story, it's seems more real, more raw, but that also means that it's something that I can accept as tangible and can move on from.

My…

By Kristi Oberholzer
Copy Editor

Thanks to a good idea from a caring Auburn student, Operation: Passion has started what hopes to be a successful fundraiser for victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Jordan Towns, a junior majoring in animal…

2 days later, campus still rattled by tragedy

By: Kristen Davis
Posted: 4/18/07

More than a hundred students, faculty and administrators bowed their heads in silence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, as the Duke Chapel bell tolled 33 times-once for each…

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Old home sweet home.

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Each victim has their own spot where friends and families have left notes, photos, and personal items.

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Ryan Clark's memorial...the RA killed in West AJ.

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Remembering those from Richmond...a girl from the west end.

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A second from Richmond...graduate of Thomas Dale High School in Chesterfield.

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Campus has taken on a whole new look...

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Remembering one of the victims, Brian Bluhm.

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seeing somewhere you spent 5 years of the best times of your life plastered all over the media with words like "massacre" and "blood bath" associated with it did quite a number on me the past two weeks. to return to campus and to immediately feel at…

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Photo of a Candlelight Vigil that was held on Pittsburgh University, Monday April 23, 2007, just a week after the tragedy on Virginia Tech campus. Students spell out the logo of Virginia Tech

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